Two Mast Tall Ship
by Marcia Lee Jones
Title
Two Mast Tall Ship
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Marcia Lee Jones
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Photograph - Photography
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Schooners first evolved from a variety of small two-masted gaff-rigged vessels used in the coast and estuaries of the Netherlands in the late 1600s. Most were working craft but some pleasure yachts with schooner rigs were built for wealthy merchants and Dutch nobility. Following arrival of the Dutch monarch William the Orange on the British throne, the British Royal Navy built a Royal yacht with a schooner rig in 1695, HMS Royal Transport. This vessel, captured in a detailed Admiralty model, is the earliest fully documented schooner.[4] Royal Transport was quickly noted for its speed and ease of handling and mercantile vessels soon adopted the rig in Europe and in European colonies in North America. Schooners were immediately popular with colonial traders and fishermen in North America with the first documented reference to a schooner in America appearing in Boston port records in 1716.[5] North American shipbuilders quickly developed a variety of schooner forms for trading, fishing and privateering.
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Music of the Heart
This image is so beautiful and inspiring! The colors are so warm and inviting. A charming image!
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